Similar to the MySQL and Drizzle user defined functions for Gearman, we now have PostrgeSQL functions too! These allow you to submit jobs to the job server from within your SQL query, trigger, or stored procedure. Here’s a snippet of how this looks in PostgreSQL:

shell$ psql test
test=# SELECT gman_do('reverse', 'Hello World!');
   gman_do
--------------
 !dlroW olleH
(1 row)

test=#

Special thanks to Selena Deckelmann for helping get these working!

Microsoft has announced that it is to contribute code to the Linux kernel development effort under the GNU General Public License (GPL) v2. What on earth does it all mean? Here’s our take on the situation. With thanks to Jay Lyman for his contribution to the following:

Q. This is a joke, right?

A. Not at all, although if any announcement is better suited to the image above, we can’t think of one. Microsoft has announced that it is going to contribute code to Linux under the GPLv2.

Q. What code is Microsoft contributing?

A. Microsoft is offering 20,000 lines of its own device drivers to the Linux kernel that will enable Linux to run as a guest …

I’ve been editing a task description in our worklog: WL#827. It has to do with CREATE SEQUENCE, ALTER SEQUENCE, and using “sequence generators” to get the next number in a sequence. After the editing, I was able to set the private flag to ‘NO’, so now you can see the specification here: http://forge.mysql.com/worklog/task.php?id=827.

As always, one can “vote” on a worklog task that’s in forge.mysql.com, or comment on the corresponding feature request in bugs.mysql.com. I wouldn’t hold out much hope for this one, though. It’s been around since 2003, and we’ve always deemed that it’s higher priority to make minor changes to our auto_increment facility.

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spider storage engine version 0.14.(beta)
http://spiderformysql.com/

The main changes in this version are following.
- The standalone compilation with Spider storage engine is now available.
Please see "03_install_spider_storage_engine.txt" for more detail.
Tatsuhiko and Tetsuro,
Thank you for your advice!

Please see "99_change_logs.txt" in the download documents for checking other changes.


Spider storage engine was introduced at following with the usage.

The Data Charmer(English)
http://datacharmer.blogspot.com/2009/04/test-driving-spider-storage-engine.html
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I was warned by my brother a while ago that should I start tweeting, he would stage an intervention. I had already confessed to accounts with facebook, multiply, myspace, and several others (disclaimer/explanation: all of those sites are customers of my longtime employer). Twitter, to the uninitiated, looks like the crack cocaine of social networking that turns the weekend photo-poster into a hardcore jittering lifecaster. Nobody wants to see their family member come to that, right? But follow along, twitter has purpose. Or just skip to the bottom.

 I was never an active friendster user. The first site I used …

Phillip & Phriends:

Follow the @MySQL twitter account at http://twitter.com/mysql

The MySQL Community Team has their own handle at http://twitter.com/mysql_community

According to polls we do from time to time, data warehousing and analytics is one of the top use cases for the MySQL Server.  While knowing this is good, we’re now trying to get a better understanding of how you use MySQL for warehousing and analytics, so I’d love it if you’d respond via comment to this post or shoot me a mail at rschumacher@mysql.com. Thanks!

NDB API Documentation

A new page has been added to this site: NDB API Docs which presents the information from the header files for both the NDB API and the NDB Management API.

The material has been generated using doxygen and will be refreshed shortly after any new major, minor or maintenance release is made generally available (starting from MySQL Cluster 7.0.6).

The Call for Papers for the OpenSQL Camp 2009 (European Edition) has ended yesterday — we received 27 excellent session proposals from various Open Source Database projects. I would like to say a big "Thank You" to everyone who submitted a talk! In the beginning I was a bit concerned that the conference would become too MySQL-centric, but this fortunately changed in the last few days.

Sadly we now have more than double the amount of sessions than we can actually host, which means that we will have to review and vote on the sessions to distill the final program. We've formed a small committee that will perform this task (currently consisting of …

I was warned by my brother a while ago that should I start tweeting, he would stage an intervention. I had already confessed to accounts with facebook, multiply, myspace, and several others (disclaimer/explanation: all of those sites are customers of my longtime employer). Twitter, to the uninitiated, looks like the crack cocaine of social networking that turns the weekend photo-poster into a hardcore jittering lifecaster. Nobody wants to see their family member come to that, right? But follow along, twitter has purpose. Or just skip to the bottom.

 I was never an active friendster user. The first site I used …